[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Twofer
- From: David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:15:01 -0700
On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Lawrence Helm wrote:
> Very nice, but Sartre's involvement in the French Resistance was exaggerated
> to an extreme degree by him. Of course he wasn't the only one doing that.
> Anyone with the slightest claim, making a café au lait for a true member of
> the resistance for example, transformed it later on into an act of heroism.
I wonder who exaggerated Sartre's involvement in the Resistance. The north I
only know from secondary sources, particularly M.R.D. Foot, "SOE in France."
Since the Germans penetrated many Northern networks, the fact that Sartre
survived unscathed suggests limited involvement.
This author--not someone I know--claims that Sartre "was never a Resistance
hero and never claimed to be one. In modest but accurate summary, Sartre later
said of himself: 'I was a resister, I met resisters, but it didn't cost me
much.'"
http://books.google.com/books?id=QtJWagYCAz0C&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=sartre+play+resistance&source=bl&ots=y8PLjqiE_E&sig=r1M1V8q7h3GrFDkepnrGUBkSVvA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D7V4T_uDBIWgiAK_wsinDg&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sartre%20play%20resistance&f=false
My subject was the Vercors. I tried recently to watch a British t.v. series,
"Wish Me Luck." Awful. Blither. Rubbish. Threw the DVD box across the room.
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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